WASHINGTON -- This week, while "the most traveled president in history" was on his latest foreign adventure and bowing to Japanese Emperor Akihito, the rest of the O-Team was busy kowtowing to political correctness. The headlines tell the story: 
"(Defense Secretary Robert) Gates Condemns Leaks on Fort Hood Investigation," and "Gates Says 'Shut Up' About Fort Hood."
"Attorney General Eric Holder Announces Terror Trials in New York City for 9-11-01 Plotters."
"Guantanamo Detainees to Illinois Prison."
All three of these actions -- the Gates outburst, the Holder decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other 9/11 conspirators in a Manhattan federal court, and the plan to transfer nearly 200 radical Islamic terrorists to a state prison in western Illinois -- have been decried as egregious examples of political correctness run amok. Actually, coming as they did -- while Mr. Obama was on a meaningless, ceremonial Asian junket -- the "package deal for terrorists" is much worse than many imagine.
Secretary Gates' admonitions regarding Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan -- now charged by the U.S. Army with murdering 12 soldiers and one civilian and wounding about 30 others at Fort Hood -- have nothing to do with protecting the rights of the accused. His misplaced anger is directed at those in our military and defense and intelligence agencies who have justifiable concerns about radical Islamic militants' conducting acts of terror on American soil. Inside the Obama administration, muzzling critics is now an accepted practice -- even at the Pentagon.
The move to relocate up to 200 terrorists from the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and house them in the nearly vacant Thomson Correctional Center is a double whammy for the O-Team. It assuages leftist elites in the U.S. and Europe who have been grousing about delays in closing Gitmo and serves as a multimillion-dollar "stimulus" for Mr. Obama's home state.
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